#da’shaun harrison

[softandorsweet]

just ~ if you haven’t listened to the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back GO DO IT!!! it’s a group of Fat liberationist discussing everything fatness and anti-fatness. plus they all exist with multiple marginalizations, most hosts are queer and trans. it’s so brilliant i’ll never get over it!!!! god

[spidergirl2000]

Hey y’all. So there are plenty of folks who want to get into fat liberation but don’t know where to start. I would recommend starting off with these two books: “Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness” by Da’Shaun L. Harrison (they are nonbinary and they use they/them pronouns) and “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings. I also recommend listening to the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Audible and any other app you use to listen to podcasts. They also have a website so you can listen to all of the episodes they post. Just type Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back and you’ll find their website. They post a new episode roughly every two Sundays.

[fatliberation]

fat white person compares body shaming to racism. more at 12

This ask tells me you don’t believe that systemic fatphobia is a real issue. It goes so, so much deeper than body shaming. I don’t compare fatphobia to homophobia, racism, etc to say that they are the same, they’re not, although they absolutely do intersect - I compare it to those things because it’s discrimination and we should treat it as such. people should be called out on it like they should with any other ism.

Although I would never equate the two, fatphobia is a form of anti-Blackness. Its roots are in white supremacy. The ideal thin body was constructed as a marker of Whiteness and ‘purity’ before any of this was ever made to be about health. Read Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings. Read Belly of The Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison.

This is the only ask like this I will answer. I’m not interested in playing oppression olympics.

[fatehbaz]

Just in case, some might enjoy. Had to organize some notes.

These are just some of the newer texts that had been promoted in the past few years at the online home of the American Association of Geographers. At: [aag dot org/new-books-for-geographers/]

Tried to narrow down selections to focus on Indigenous, Black, anticolonial, Latin American, oceanic/archipelagic geographies; imaginaries and environmental perception; mobility, borders, carceral/abolition geography; literary and musical ecologies.

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New stuff, early 2024:

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit (Hannah Regis, University of the West Indies Press, 2024)

Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America (Raúl Zibechi and translator George Ygarza Quispe, AK Press, 2024)

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico (K. Maria D. Lane, University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Hydrofeminist Thinking With Oceans: Political and Scholarly Possibilities (Tarara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, and Nike Romano, Routledge, 2024)

Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes: The Game Is Afoot (David McLaughlin, University of Chicago Press, 2025)

Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies (Anahit Behrooz, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)

Midlife Geographies: Changing Lifecourses across Generations, Spaces and Time (Aija Lulle, Bristol University Press, 2024)

Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order (Anthony Ince and Geronimo Barrera de la Torre, Pluto Press, 2024)

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New stuff, 2023:

The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis, Duke University Press, 2023)

Activist Feminist Geographies (Edited by Kate Boyer, Latoya Eaves and Jennifer Fluri, Bristol University Press, 2023)

The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina (Mercedes Biocca, Pluto Press, 2023)

The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Dueterte (Vicente L. Rafael, Duke University Press, 2022)

Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 (İlkay Yılmaz, Syracuse University Press, 2023)

The Practice of Collective Escape (Helen Traill, Bristol University Press, 2023)

Maps of Sorrow: Migration and Music in the Construction of Precolonial AfroAsia (Sumangala Damodaran and Ari Sitas, Columbia University Press, 2023)

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New stuff, late 2022:

B.H. Roberts, Moral Geography, and the Making of a Modern Racist (Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr.and Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)

Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa (Martin Kalb, Berghahn Books, 2022)

Sentient Ecologies: Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape (Edited by Alexandra Coțofană and Hikmet Kuran, Berghahn Books 2022)

Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905 (Matthew Unangst, University of Toronto Press, 2022)

The Geographies of African American Short Fiction (Kenton Rambsy, University of Mississippi Press, 2022)

Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (Ruth Rogaski, University of Chicago Press, 2022)

Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment (Jessica T. Simes, University of California Press, 2021)

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New stuff, early 2022:

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-fatness as Anti-Blackness (Da’Shaun Harrison, 2021)

Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement (Edited by Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Haymarket Books, 2021)

Confederate Exodus: Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil (Alan Marcus, University of Nebraska Press, 2021)

Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place (Palgrave, 2021)

Krakow: An Ecobiography (Edited by Adam Izdebski & Rafał Szmytka, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State (Kathryn Abrams, University of California Press, 2022)

Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Jessica Namakkal, 2021)

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New stuff, 2020 and 2021:

Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom (Amanda Smith, Liverpool University Press, 2021)

Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (Edited by María del Pilar Blanco and Joanna Page, 2020)

Reconstructing public housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives (Matt Thompson, University of Liverpool Press, 2020)

The (Un)governable City: Productive Failure in the Making of Colonial Delhi, 1858–1911 (Raghav Kishore, 2020)

Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains: Ecology at the Russia-Mongolia Border (Edited by Alex Oehler and Anna Varfolomeeva, 2020)

Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador (Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, 2019)

City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 (Marcus P. Nevius, University of Georgia Press, 2020)

[chubbychiquita]

Wanted to share a quote that feels pertinent to the b.s. that was in your inbox today:

“Concepts like ‘greed(iness),’ and ‘over-consumption’ are the cages that breed Thinness… Thinness, as a politic, demands that one consume less, desire less, rather than make the demand that we end a World where what one desires would leave others without” (20). Da’Shaun L. Harrison, Belly of The Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

thank you so much for this! 💕

[thottybrucewayne]

Thotty's Spring-Summer TBR

To be started

Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor Toward the African Revolution by Fanon Black Disability Politics by Samantha Dawn Schalk and Sami Schalk Notre Histoire: The First Hundred Years of Haitian Independence by Ghislain Gouraige Jr. Sexed Up by Julia Serano The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation by Qween Jean and Joela Rivera Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making Editor(s): Yvonne Welbon and Alexandra Juhasz Keith Haring's Line Race and the Performance of Desire by Ricardo Montez Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails by A. Cruz-Malavé

To Be Finished

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan Whipping Girl by Julia Serano Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey Reel to Real: Race, class, and sex at the movies by Bell Hooks Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said

Re-reads

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson Anarcho-Blackness Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey Anarchism and Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Cistem Failure by Marquis Bey Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston The Book of Negro Folklore Editor(s) Langston Hughes & Arna Bontemps

Reccs

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon The Deep by Rivers Solomon Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s by Marloes Bontje The Blood of A Thousand Roots by Dane Figueroa Edidi My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Street Style by Ted Polhemu Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blacknes By Da’Shaun L. Harrison The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Insights: Film & Television by TRUDY Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans by Daryl Cumber Dance

[evilkitsch]

something that reading da’shaun harrison’s belly of the beast: the politics of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness made me realize is that the purpose of unlearning fatphobia (for a non-Black person who benefits from Thinness) isn’t to improve personal self-esteem but to divest from anti-Blackness.

unlearning fatphobia isn’t something you do for yourself but in solidarity with people who are marginalized & murdered for being fat & Black.

[ladygagataiwan]

📖 女神卡卡 Lady Gaga 更新 Instagram：以下這些句子可以在 Joy James 的著作《追求革命之愛》(In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love) 中找到。（2023.06.19）

【圖１】Joy James 著作《追求革命之愛》中的一段摘錄，建立在 Ominira Mars 的貢獻之上。

【圖２】Mumia Abu-Jamal 在同一本書的《Afterforward》中談到 Joy James 學術概念「concept of Captive Maternal」時的文字。

【圖３】Da’Shaun L. Harrison 為本書撰寫的前言。

【圖４】Joy James 著的《追求革命愛情》一書的照片。

💡 補充：Joy James 是知名美國政治哲學家、學者、作家 & 人文學科教授。

【Gaga 貼文】

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtrwWbRPqTI/

“All words can be found in 「In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love」 by Joy James

Image 1: Words from Joy James’ book 「In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love,」 in an excerpt that is 「building on the contributions」 of Ominira Mars.

Image 2: Words from the same book’s Afterforward by Mumia Abu-Jamal on Joy James “concept of Captive Maternal.”

Image 3: Words from the book’s Foreward by Da’Shaun L. Harrison. @dashaunlh

Image 4: Photo of the book “In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love” by Joy James.

小怪獸們 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 記得「追蹤 𝐹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌」

才不會漏掉任何 𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐆𝐀𝐆𝐀 的最新消息喔！

#女神卡卡 #女神卡卡臺灣粉絲團 #環球音樂 #西洋 #西洋音樂 #文學 #閱讀 #レディーガガ #레이디가가 #ladygaga #gaga #pawsup #littlemonsters #taiwan #ladygagataiwan #queenofpop #albumoftheyear #songoftheyear #Afterforward #book #ConceptOfCaptiveMaternal #kkbox #literature #songwriter #OminiraMars #grammys #oscars #MumiaAbuJamal #JoyJames #InPursuitofRevolutionaryLove

[possibilistfanfiction]

so today a coworker said "you should put your pronouns on zoom" - i redirected instead of ranting but i realized i prob wouldn't have given a very coherent response? i was rereading your post(s) from a couple weeks ago where you talked about gender and pronouns and what you said was hella affirming. but now i'm wondering, how do i start to educate myself (gender and perception and neoliberalism and abolition) so i can explain in my own way instead of half-assing your wonderful words?

i would just start following good ppl & taking in info in ur favorite ways. ppl love to hold Reading™️ as the pinnacle of everything but i think that like… podcasts, ig carousels from good ppl, etc etc is awesome. & also just connect to queer ppl (online or in person!) in spaces that are fun for you.

in terms of ppl to follow, i would start w fat liberation activists! caleb luna & da’shaun harrison are two of my favorites; they have a ton of academic & less formal work that’s all deeply brilliant.

[povyoureinmybrain]

Cancel culture made it hard to detect the bigots

We’ve seen how brands like Victoria Secret that model “thin white women” be widely criticised. In fear of being cancelled, fashion houses have now included plus size models in their shows. However this is actually a false inclusion. It has come out that that most of the fashion houses don’t sell their pieces in plus sizes but made custom ones for the models in their shows. Sneaky right?! How we can see this covert fat phobia can be seen through the tiktok “that girl” trend. Instead of selling us the “thin white women” people and brands are now selling what it takes to get there. Since it is unacceptable to openly want to be skinny, its become a trend to want to eat healthy. - My point is that “clean” eating is a myth. 

Maybe I’m just a pessimist but that’s just some food for thought.

Book references ( I HIGHLY recommend) 

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Belly of the beast by Da’Shaun Harrison 

[secondimpact]

In sociological terms, what she is naming is that, through our various social institutions, human beings are socialised—or taught—to hate their bodies and that there is a moment in our own lifetime where we did not look at ourselves through a lens of hate and disgust. These points are brilliant and fundamentally true. Where Taylor and I depart, however, is here: irrespective of how much internal work one does for themselves, the systems under which they live that actively lay claim to their bodies are not and cannot be reversed through any introspection or outward radical self-love. These socioeconomic political structures do not need the type of reform that a radical self-love would suggest, but rather they need total destruction. If we go back to the beginning, if we pull up the roots, unless the social institutions through which we were initially socialised are destroyed, we can only ever return back to the place we left.

Beyond Self-Love from Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun Harrison

[yngsuk]

“Fat Black trans people are forced to move to and through gender in a way that makes most evident to me that gender itself is something worth interrogating more closely. In so many ways, fatness functions as a gender of its own. Fatness fails, and therefore disrupts, the foundation on which gender is built. This is why the request is made of fat trans people to lose weight before they can be affirmed in their gender, or why little fat Black boys are often misread as girls, or why fat Black women are often denied access to womanhood in a way that operates differently than the typical ungendering of Black subjects at large. But gender is birthed from violence, and therefore fatness operating as its own gender is not liberatory so much as it is forced. Fat people are situated in this extension of what is already a prison because fat bodies deviate from—or rather are already positioned outside of—the designated or assigned “look” of gender. This is to say that the attempt to broaden the normate template only further harms unDesirable people and reifies the very real violences of gender itself.”

Da’Shaun L. Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

[maryannauger]

I know a lot of strong feelings can arise from learning that something we’ve believed for so long is shown not to be true.

If those feelings arise and you feel like leaving an angry message in the comments after reading this post, please pause and do some reading first:

- Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

- Belly of the Beast - Da’Shaun Harrison

- Anti-Diet - Christy Harrison

- Fat Politics - J. Eric Oliver

- Killer Fat - Natalie Boero

- Article: The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI - Aubrey Gordon

If you want to listen to a podcast instead:

Maintenance Phase: Obesity Epidemic

Maintenance Phase: The Body Mass Index

If you want to watch instead:

Watch the video The History of the Obesity Epidemic and BMI from the Erasing Fatphobia Workshops on YouTube. (I will add the link to my bio)

The reason I mentioned that it’s embarrassing to still believe in the “ob*sity epidemic” is that there is ample evidence that demonstrates that the epidemic was made up to benefit diet and pharmaceutical companies and in turn to propagate anti-fat - and therefore anti-black - messages.

It’s only embarrassing if you know about that and still continue screaming about an epidemic.

If this is the first time you hear about this, it’s not embarrassing at all! I’ve been there too 💛

[fatliberation]

love your page so much! have you read any work from Da’shaun L Harrison? they are so so amazing and have written an amazing book called the “belly of the beast: the politics of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness” they also co host the fat liberation podcast called “unsolicited: fatties talk back” with other fat liberationists whom i love like Caleb Luna, Bryan Guffey, Marquisele Mercedes and Jordan Hall! most of them are also trans! thought i’d share <3

Yes!!! I adore Da’shaun’s work as well as everyone else you just mentioned! I follow each of them individually and when I found out they were hosting a podcast together I geeked out SO HARD. I’m currently making my way through Unsolicited FTB and it is feeding my soul. What an incredible group of people. I highly recommend listening!

[rapeculturerealities]

“Who are you outside of your body?” — This is one of my favorite questions that has ever been asked, and it’s one that Da’Shaun L. Harrison tasks us with unraveling often. When we sat down to discuss their forthcoming book, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, I reflected on how I feel this question reverberating in every chapter. What Da’Shaun drives home with Belly of the Beast is why the question is so important, why it should be asked again and again, because there are so many things invested in us seeing ourselves as only a body.

In this conversation, we dig into many things: the limitations and failings of Body Positivity, the violent ways that Black fat beings are policed and violated by police, how fatphobia convinces us to police ourselves, parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the general ways Black fat beings are engaged by the medical industry, gender, humanness, abolition, capitalism, diet culture, the impossibility of “health” for Black people, the cannibalistic nature of whiteness, and more.

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[batmanisagatewaydrug]

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that's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison!